First and foremost, this blog
points to policing in the United States of America. Police officers in
Canada, Europe, Asia or Australia may not fall under this aggregation.
[a] Each country’s laws are as par the constitution and culture of that
country. [b] Let’s face it, the police in other developed countries are
not murdering civilians, in cold blood, at the same alarming rate as
the police in the United States. Policing is very different in other
countries, most are unarmed and those who are armed rarely use lethal
force against unarmed civilians.
Bear in mind, in a country with a
long history of racism, the mendacious nature of the American law
enforcement system is appalling. The media’s blind eye and failure
to confront the police directly on this issue contributes greatly to
police accountability. With all this, there is still no hatred for cops,
far from it. It is the unscrupulous policing and their corrupt system
that is resented. Good cops do not speak up against bad cops or make any
effort to bring them to justice. Bad and good cops fall under the same
assemblage. All the same, there are effective ways to speak out and
there are “waste of time” ways to address the issue.
Who is a Police murdofficer? A
police murdofficer is a policeman or police woman who murders innocent
civilians in cold blood and then runs behind a prosecutor or grand jury
to avoid prosecution. This officer uses his/her line of duty, job
hazards or the good nature of what police is supposed to be, as a reason
to be exonerated from facing justice. It’s like a priest who seeks to
be exempted from prosecution simply because of the good image of
priesthood. Don’t prosecute me for my crime because I belong to a noble
organization.
Ironically, armed to the T, with
laws that prohibit resisting or defending ones self against police
aggression, it is the police who claim to be at risk rather than the
under-armed civilian or criminal they face. This system outrages many.
And at such, prosecutors who twist evidence, grand juries who fail
to indict when there is ample evidence and other police officers, the
media and family members who say or do nothing to effect justice when a
murdering officer sits in their mist are all co-conspirators of the murdofficer. They all contribute to the problem.
A
few years back, I wrote a post saying “every town has a judge and the
policemen and women in that town are the judge’s foot soldiers”. That,
“they get marching orders from the court, which is why the court is the
last place to take a police officer after he or she has committed a
crime while on duty”. I actually feel bad for female cops because they
do their jobs right. It is their testosterone driven male counterparts
who simply think they are above reproach. It is this reproach that
the media has failed to effect against crooked police officers in their
community. This is what the public yearns to change. Police
accountability to THE PUBLIC.
With that said, let’s ignore the
Jazz about how not all officers are corrupt and how there are good
policemen out there. We cannot afford to be distracted by fact twisters
who allude to the fallacy that we seek to demonize the police. Let’s
stay focused on the subject of accountability and that this
accountability must be transparent and fair. Since cops don’t snitch on
each other, how can they expect the public to …trust them to investigate each other? Will they do that if roles were reversed?
The
public is at a HUGE disadvantage. [a] citizens pay taxes but have no
control over what those dollars are used for. Often, it is the citizen
who pays for it all, retraining of cops, upgrade of equipment, settling
of law suits against crooked cops and the salaries; even while a
murdofficer is on “administrative leave”. The majority of citizens are
unemployed or underemployed people who are already struggling to make
ends meet, yet a good sum of their tax dollars are used to settle
disputes or law suits against crooked cops who never get fired.
Whether
its a teenager who is murdered by a crooked cop in Ferguson or a middle
aged man who is choked to death by an overzealous cop in New York or a
twelve year old child who is slaughtered by a trigger happy officer in
Ohio, it comes as no surprise that all three murderers will go free.
Why? Because of the 5 sensible reasons which I’m about to out line in
this blog… that are not being implemented by the public.
…see part 2
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